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The "language fact" role in reading materiality

It is our aim to discuss the implications of the "language fact" in reading practice (its historic-discursive materiality). We start with the premise that the relationship of Brazilian immigrant subjects with linguistic aspects is marked by tensions between the Portuguese language, predominantly the national written language, with other languages silenced in the official public domain but that somehow remained in certain immigration contexts, merged with Portuguese. The types of languages silenced in history still have a place in the subjects as a memory of their mother tongue. Yet, the modes of the national written language challenge the reader in a relationship with the language pierced by legal aspects (correct, proven). Considering that both dimensions (national and mother tongue) have an effect on language practices, we aim to describe and understand certain subject/languages identification processes which take place through the way the subject's linguistic structure memory intervenes in the production of meanings, mediating the reader's relationship with the text. It participates, therefore, in the process of giving meaning to what is read. The work is developed in the field of discourse theory.

linguistic materiality; memory; mother tongue; identification


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